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THE author has collected a fairly representative list of poisonous plants, which he has arranged according to the action produced and the organs affected, but there is no mention made of the part or parts of the plant which furnish the poison. The descriptions, which form the main part of the text, are sufficient where reference is made to the whole plant, but the majority are too meagre to be diagnostic. The string of vernacular names which is quoted in several cases does not serve any useful purpose, whereas beyond the mere name of the toxic principle information which is much required is not given.
Poisonous Plants of all Countries.
By A. B. Smith. Pp. xvi + 88. (Bristol: J. Wright and Co., 1905.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Poisonous Plants of all Countries . Nature 72, 243 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072243c0
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